About This Item


  • Call NumberNEIG_2337
  • TitleCarroll Street Bridge before planting
  • SummaryGrass plot adjacent to Carroll Street Bridge at Gowanus Canal; tracks and wires bisecting grass plot; portion of bridge at right; street with automobiles, pedestrians, and buildings receeding into right background; piled lumber behind wooden fence at left; pilings in canal in right and left foreground; wooden building with painted sign, "Watson & Pittinger Timber Yard," beyond grass plot; factory, smokestacks and water tower in background.
  • Date1912
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 8 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Aug. 31, 1912. Title from typed caption on recto.
  • SubjectCanals ; Bridges ; Lumber
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Gowanus: Canal Bridges